Most of the projects do not involve researching killer robots, and the Future of Life has said it would rather not get into “Terminator” debates. Instead, it wants to focus on real-life scenarios like economic issues with robots, moral decisions and understanding humans.

Elon Musk is not a lone wolf when it comes to worrying about AI, Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Bill Gates claims there are some major questions and worries on advanced AI and robots.

Creating barriers for governments is another large area the Future of Life institute needs to cover, considering how much damage the US and UK have done on the Internet already through mass surveillance, spying and hacking. Having AI that can help them document, format, correlate and attack would be a huge issue.

AI programs like Watson are already at the point where most of the Internet has been documented, and Google’s investments in DeepMind continue to push the evolution of artificial intelligence forward into a new age—even though we still don’t know the full extent of what is possible with super-intelligent AI.